A NEW PROPHET.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3374, 15 October 1879, Page 3

A NEW PROPHET.

A man representing himself to be the Prophet Elijah, is creating quite a furore in and about the ancient citj of Chichester. Hearing the fame of this remarkable individual, I (correspondent of Telegraph) drove over from Portsmouth last week to have an interview with him. Passing through .North street I observed a tall, handsome man, dressed in a picturesque garb of sheepskin, with a cap of the same material and high cowhide boots, standing in the doorway of the George and Dragon Inn. I went inside, and commenced to speak to him, but he retired upstairs. After some difficulty he was persuaded to come down into the best room in the house, where he received me. His appearance is very striking, having verj good clear cut features of Asiatic type, being tall in stature, and having an ever ready smile, and his dark whiskers being set off to perfection by the light dress and cap. He carries a staff and small horn, which he blows through the streets and announces his meetings, which are held in the Peoples' Park and are very largely attended. He told me that he had been a landscape painter, and that eight months ago he had seen several visions, iv which he was told to call himself Elijah at all meetings; and that he was the real prophet as foretold and promised in Malachi iv., verse 5. This verse is the whole foundation for the doctrine, which he is to preach Anglo-Israelism to the English people, who, he states, are the * lost ten tribes of Israel; and if they do not listen to him and in time return to Jerusalem, a great famine is prophesied. It is almost unnecessary to say that at some of his meetings he has to encounter great opposition; sometimes he gets stoned ; and others made quite a hero of. He was lately in the south-east of England. He now expresses hia determination to go all over London.